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Semkel and Searchlight Cyber Form Strategic Partnership
October 2023 by Marc Jacob
Semkel, the expert in preventive cybersecurity, and Searchlight Cyber, the UK-based dark web intelligence company, have signed a strategic partnership agreement in France.
Semkel is an economic intelligence firm specializing in the protection of economic and strategic interests working at the intersection of two areas of expertise: business intelligence and cybersecurity via Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI). Semkel helps French and international companies make strategic decisions and protect their data and digital assets. It brings together the best technologies to drive SOCINT or OSINT solutions for intelligence, or solutions for threat analysis and detection.
Searchlight Cyber is a UK company offering dark web intelligence solutions that were originally built for law enforcement to help bring criminals operating on the dark web to justice. Today, its platform is used by government, law enforcement, and enterprise customers for dark web investigations and dark web monitoring.
This strategic alliance will strengthen Semkel’s capabilities in the field of preventive cybersecurity for its customers in France and abroad. Two Searchlight Cyber products will be added to Semkel’s ecosystem of threat intelligence technologies:
● Dark IQ, a dark web monitoring solution that continuously searches hidden sites, forums, and marketplace for early warning signs of a cyberattack against an organization.
● Cerberus, a dark web investigation platform that gives analysts access to the most comprehensive dark web dataset on the market, enabling them to disrupt criminal activity.
This partnership also enables Searchlight Cyber to deploy its dark web intelligence solutions in France.
Preventive Security, a Fundamental Challenge for Businesses
Traditional threat detection takes an average of eight weeks to three months.[1] In order to reduce this lag time between the start of a cyberattack and the moment it is discovered, organizations need to secure expertise in threat detection and invest in the latest solutions for identifying the early warning signs of a cyberattack.
Traditionally, cyberattacks such as data theft and ransomware have been more difficult to detect because cybercriminals use the deep web (pages that are invisible to search engines) and the dark web (accessible only through specific networks and browsers), which were inaccessible for traditional online monitoring, even though this is where the majority of cybercriminal activity takes place. Searchlight Cyber’s dark web intelligence solutions give organizations visibility into this cybercriminal ecosystem so they can spot attacks earlier and adjust their defenses.
